>> While those names (Bride, Bridget, etc) are certainly common, I think it's a
>>safe bet that the pagan church of the goddess is counting on the association
>>with the very well known Irish Brigid.  If they're a wiccan group (just a
>>guess, I don't know) they may not even care that they're mixing pantheons,
>>traditions, or cultures - pantheists/duotheists don't generally see a problem
>>with doing that, because all goddesses are part of THE goddess.  
>>
>>darkelf
OK -- PS -- Wiccans are of many stripes -- and 
British Wiccan are their OWN stripe, as you well know. Some of them are
folklorests par excellence, and some are not. Let's keep those generalizations
in proportion. Some Christians believe in the Virgin Mary, some don't think
about her a  lot at all. Same thing. Some Wiccans lump all the Goddesses into
ONE, some don't. I am, personally, a Polytheist, and so is my tradition. I am
also, a twenty year vetran, initiated with All the Right Gestures, Wiccan. Just
a little thing. The bigger thing is this, I would *never* fail to use a capital
in Christian, Jewish or Zoroastrian, please afford me the same curtesy. Wicca
is a proper noun and identifies a religion that has a large number of
practioners these days. Lezlie

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